Socioeconomic inequality of cancer mortality in the United States: a spatial data mining approach by Lam Nina SN, Vinnakota Srinivas

“…An association rule mining algorithm was applied to extract associations between the 1988–1992 cancer mortality rates for colorectal, lung, breast, and prostate cancers defined at the Health Service Area level and selected socioeconomic variables from the 1990 United States census. Geographic information system technology was used to integrate these data which were defined at different spatial resolutions, and to visualize and analyze the results from the association rule mining process.…”
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